Teaching Positions Distinguished res professor art, Northern Ill Univ, 65-2001, distinguished professor emer, 2001-.
Business and Professional Positions Bd member & chairman visual arts, Ill Arts Coun, 73-77.
Commissioned Works Hapworth Med Center, New York, 86.
Public Works Art Institute of Chicago, Ill; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Krannert Mus, Univ Ill, Urbana; Austin Mus Art, Texas; Mus Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Columbus Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio; St Lawrence Coll, Canton, New York; Ball State Univ, Ind; Ill State Mus; Sunrise Mus, West Virginia; The Borg-Warner Collection, Chicago, Ill; The Kemper Collection; The Ill Bell Collection; AT&T Collection; Art Institute of Chicago; State of Ill Collection; Millikin Univ Collection; Columbus Gallery of Fine Art ; Austin Art Museum; and numerous private collections.
Exhibitions Solo exhibs, Lakeview Center Arts, Peoria, 74, Ill State Mus, Springfield, 76, Zaks Gallery, Chicago, 80, 83, 85-86, 90, 94 & 96, Nardin Gallery, New York, 80, Madison Gallery, Toronto, 80, Chicago Collects Mahmoud, Northern Ill Univ, De Kalb, 81, Smelik & Stokking Gallery, The Hague, The Netherlands & Ballard & Fetherston Gallery, Seattle, 99, Ind Univ - South Bend, 2001, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Kirkland, Washington, 2001; Group exhibs, Art Today, Indianapolis Mus, Ind, 84 & 86; Art and the Law (traveling), 86-; Retrospective, Rockford Art Museum, Ill; Zaks Gallery, 2000.
Bibliography David Tenuse (author), review, Washington Post, 4/30/77; Robert Kaupelis (author), Experimental Drawing, Watson-Guptill, 80; Carrie Rebora (author), Ben Mahmoud, New Art Examiner, Vol 8, 81.
Publications Author (with William V Dunning), Advice to Young Artists in a Post Modern Era, Syracuse Univ Press, 98.
Honors and Awards Creative Activity Grants, Northern Ill Univ, 65-; Painting Fellow, National Endowment of the Arts, 75.
Dealers The Patricia Rolzar Gallery 118 Central Way Kirkland WA 98033.
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